Bradley Wiggins into a podium position on Giro del Trentino

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Team Sky won the team time trial on the first day of the tourPIERRE TEYSSOT

Sport Staff

Last updated at 4:17PM, April 18 2013

Bradley Wiggins today moved into a podium position in the Giro del Trentino,
finishing in a group some way behind behind the stage winner.

The Tour de France champion, who is using this race as his final competitive
warm-up for the Giro d’Italia, sits third in the general classification, 29
seconds behind his team-mate, Kanstantsin Siutsou, himself 3min 19sec off
the overall race leader, Maxime Bouet.

Neither one of the Sky riders is likely to breach that time gap on tomorrow’s
final stage of the four-day tour and Wiggins may instead focus on keeping
Vincenzo Nibali off the podium. The